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Wednesday, June 12 2013

The Democracy of Objects @ Nettie Horn / until Saturday 15th June 2013

TIME AND PLACE:

Doors: Tue to Sat 11:00 – 18:00

@ Nettie Horn, 17A Riding House Street, London W1W 7DS

Free entry

www.nettiehorn.com

An exhibition featuring Colombian, English and Danish artists Ivan Argote, Abigail Reynolds and the collective A Kassen. The works presented the exhibition engage with the use and manipulation of artefacts and the artists explore social experiences alongside a reflection on the status of the artwork.

From interventions which playfully and subversively address the public to sculptural compositions reflecting on cultural memories, the objects here play with their classification and reinvent themselves through actions such as dematerialization, rematerialzation and interconnexion.

Tuesday, June 11 2013

Thomson & Craighead: Never Odd Or Even @ Carroll/Fletcher / until 6th July 2013

TIME AND PLACE:

Doors:
Mon to Fri 11:00 – 19:00
Sat 11:00 – 18:00

@ Carroll/Fletcher, 56-57 Eastcastle Street, London W1W 8EQ

Free entry

www.carrollfletcher.com
www.tclondonwall.tumblr.com

An exhibition by Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead bringing together a range of new and recent works.

Interested in how information about the world is filtered through the prism of the world wide web, and other forms of information technology, Thomson & Craighead play with this data to create poetic, compelling works that ask fundamental questions about what it is to be human.

During the exhibition localised staus updates from Twitter will be selected, published and installed in the gallery.

Monday, June 10 2013

Susan Aldworth: The Portrait Anatomised @ National Portrait Gallery / until 1st September 2013

TIME AND PLACE:

Doors:
Mon to Wed 10:00-18:00
Thur and Fri 10:00-21:00
Sat and Sun 10:00-18:00

@ National Portrait Gallery, Room 38a, St Martin’s Place, London WC2H 0HE

Free entry

www.npg.org.uk

Produced as part of a commission for Guy’s and St. Thomas’s Hospital in Westminster, the portraits by Susan Aldworth in this display depict three individuals with epilepsy. Expanding a notion of contemporary portraiture, the artist appropriates the illustrative vocabulary of medical science in her innovative printmaking process and in doing so asks how this material corresponds or contrasts with the subject’s sense of self.

Saturday, June 8 2013

Good Genes @ Market House / Saturday 8th June 2013

TIME AND PLACE:

21:00 – 03:00

@ Market House
443 Coldharbour Lane,
London,
SW9 8LN

Entry: £FREE

This Saturday will see South London party starters Good Genes return in a new Brixton based venue. At the controls will be Mr. Alex Egan whose recent fine run of form has seen a release on How The Other Half Lives and spots at Field Day and Peckham’s own Rhythm Section. Say the Good Genes gang of their night, “Above all we want to create a fun and free atmosphere where people aren’t afraid to lose their shit to the music. Footloose and fancy free, without pretension.” Soundtracking the party will be selections from their extensive vinyl collections – think less Tiesto, more Optimo. Less Toddla T, more Move D. Priced very fairly at £0, you could do far worse on a Saturday night south of the river.

Take a listen to what could be playing tonight.

Enjoy

Visions of the Universe @ National Maritime Museum / until 15th September 2013

TIME AND PLACE:

Doors: 10:00 – 17:00

@ National Maritime Museum, Romney Road, Greenwich, London SE10 9NF

Tickets:

www.rmg.co.uk

Wander through beautiful galaxies, spectacular nebulae and millions of shimmering stars in this breath-taking collection of some of the most incredible images of our universe ever made.

Visions of the Universe, the latest temporary special exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, shows how we have captured images of the heavens over the centuries, from the earliest hand-drawings to photographs taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and the very latest footage from the Mars Curiosity rover.

Friday, June 7 2013

Advance Tickets: The Horror Show TV launch + White of the Eye 35mm Screening @ The Prince Charles Cinema / Thursday 13th June 2013

TIME AND PLACE

Doors 7pm, introduction from 7.15pm

@ The Prince Charles Cinema,
7 Leicester Place, WC2H 7BY

Tickets £15 / members £12 her e
Advance booking highly recommended: Tickets are limited

To launch THE HORROR SHOW, the first video-on-demand streaming service specialising in horror content, the Prince Charles Cinema is hosting the ultimate evening in horror. Esteemed horror writer and keeper of Empire Magazine’s horror vault, Kim Newman, will introduce his selected film, WHITE OF THE EYE. This 1987 horror classic will be a rare 35mm presentation.

HIM INDOORS, introduced by writer/director Paul Davis, will be the evening’s short film accompaniment to highlight The Horror Show’s “Short Stack” feature – 10 short films for 99p! The evening also includes horror-themed stand-up comedy from Perfect Movie host Richard Sandling (winner of So You Think You’re Funny in 2007), as well as competitions to win signed posters and other horror merchandise, plus even more surprises! Drinks will be available throughout the event.

Tickets are limited, with only 100 going on sale to the public. This is not one to miss, horror fans! Explore The Horror Show here to find out what you’re in store for.

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The Alternative Guide to the Universe @ Hayward Gallery / until 26th August 2013

TIME AND PLACE:

Doors:
Mon to Wed 10:00 – 18:00
Sat to Sun 10:00 – 18:00
Thu and Fri 10:00 – 18:00

@ Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX

Tickets: from £10 book online

www.southbankcentre.co.uk

The Alternative Guide to the Universe explores the work of self-taught artists and architects, fringe physicists and visionary inventors, all of whom offer bracingly unorthodox perspectives on the world we live in.

Inspiringly original and bracingly eccentric, their work re-imagines our social and cultural conventions in ways that fearlessly depart from accepted ways of thinking.

Contributors to the exhibition explore fictional identities and design imaginary cities; they build healing machines and record the unseen energy flows of our bodies. They speculate on mysteries of time and space; create devices for time travel and communication with other dimensions; and fashion new letter forms designed to liberate the alphabet from the strictures of Western civilization.

Part of Festival of Neighbourhood.

Thursday, June 6 2013

Bill Viola: Frustrated Actions and Futile Gestures @ Blain Southern Gallery / until 27th July 2013

TIME AND PLACE

Monday – Friday 10am-6pm
Saturday 10am-5pm

@ Blain Southern Gallery
4 Hanover Square, W1S 1BP

FREE ENTRY

The Directors of Blain|Southern present Frustrated Actions and Futile Gestures, a museum-scale exhibition of nine new works by the internationally renowned video artist Bill Viola.

Created between 2012 and 2013, both on location and in the artist’s studio in Southern California, the exhibition presents three distinct bodies of works; the Frustrated Actions, the Mirage and the Water Portraits series. Through these works, Viola engages with complex aspects of human experience, including mortality, transience and our persistent, yet ultimately futile attempts to truly and objectively understand ourselves and the meaning of our brief lives.

Viola’s work focuses on the ideas behind fundamental human experiences such as birth and death, and different aspects of consciousness. Absolutely one of the most interesting video artists of our time, we recommend seeing his highly affecting work first hand, especially as Viola’s most recent London exhibition was back in 2006.

George Bellows (1882-1925): Modern American Life @ Royal Academy of Arts / until Sunday 9th June 2013

TIME AND PLACE:

Doors:
Sat to Thu 10:00 – 18:00
Fri 10:00 – 22:00

@ Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD

Tickets: from £10 book online

www.royalacademy.org.uk

This exhibition will be the first retrospective of works by American realist painter George Bellows to be held in the UK. When Bellows died at age 42, he was considered one of the greatest artists in America. His fascination with New York’s gritty urban landscape, its technological marvels and the diversity of its inhabitants, made him both an artist of the modern city and an insightful observer of the dynamic and challenging decades of the early 20th century.

Wednesday, June 5 2013

R B Kitaj: Obsessions – The Art of Identity @ Jewish Museum / until 16th June 2013

TIME AND PLACE:

Open:
Mon to Thur 10:00 – 17:00
Fri 10:00 – 14:00
Sun 10:00 – 17:00

@ Jewish Museum, 129-131 Albert Street, Camden Town, London NW1 7NB

Entry: from £6 book online

www.jewishmuseum.org.uk

Split between Pallant House Gallery and the Jewish Museum, this retrospective of American-born artist R B Kitaj aims to unpick the different facets of the artist’s identity, as a ‘wandering Jew’ existing in a fragmented world.